The Blichmann Therminator Wort Chiller is one of the most popular tools to use when chilling your wort, as it gets the job done quickly, effectively and without much effort from you. This particular chiller has 40 plates and 316 stainless steel plates and fittings. It features ½ inch MPT for the wort in and out, and a ¾ inch MPT garden hose thread for the water in and out. You’ll be able to chill just like the pros when you use the Blichmann Therminator Wort Chiller, as it is extremely similar to the chillers used in commercial breweries.

The Therminator chiller is small but mighty, with the capability to chill 10 gallons of wort down to 68 degrees when using 58 degree water in just five minutes! It measures an ultra compact 7.5 inches wide, 4 inches deep and 3 inches high, which also makes it very easy to clean and sanitize. It is brazed together with pure copper in an oxygen-free furnace so there are no potential leaks, and it even comes with heavy gauge stainless mounting bracket to keep your system looking sturdy and seamless.

All 316 stainless steel plates and fittings.

Chill like the pro's - Identical to commercial brewery chillers.

Brazed together with pure copper in an oxygen free furnace - no potential leaks like a gasketed unit.

Chill 10 gal in 5 min to 68°F using 58°F cooling water at 5 gpm.

Ultra compact (7.5" W, 4" D, 3" H)

Easy to clean and sanitize - small enough to boil!

Garden hose thread connections on water side - no extra adapters to buy.

1/2" male NPT fittings on wort side mates up with virtually all common hose connector types. Much easier to sanitize than female fittings.

I managed to chill 11 gallons of boiling wort to 51 degrees in about 12 minutes! I didn't realize it'd be so effective so next time I'll have to reduce the incoming water flow so the wort doesn't get so cold. I had to wait for the wort in the fermenter to warm up so I could pitch my ale yeast. Make sure you check your cooling water source temperature, folks!

For a $200 wort chiller, it should come with the items everyone needs. I did my research and ordered everything it said I needed. What it doesn't say is that you need a female to female waterhose. Who the heck has that? No one.

Of course I didn't realize this until it was time to cool my wort. Now what? Leave my wort to get contaminated while I go to the store?

Just used this thing for the third time. Couldn't be happier. I read reviews of it getting clogged so I've been using hop bags to keep them out of the chiller. I run my 1/4 tsp Irish moss through along w break material and have had no probs w clogs. When finished I pump warm pbw through the chiller and let it recirc for about 15min then pump sanitizer through it a few min and store. This device chills my wort to ~67 as fast as gravity can pull it into the fermenter. My ground water is ~62.

This thing is heavy and a bit hard to handle, but man does it work well. Cools down wort quickly and to the right temperature. It does require some maintenance with cleaning and sanitizing, but totally worth it.

I am using a 10 gallon electric boil pot and pump the wort to my conical. Hops are pellet form and crush is at .040. I love the Therminator but have problems with total blockage when using with a boil coil. I'm looking for a solution to eliminate blockage when pumping from boil pot thru Therminator to conical.

Going from immersion chillers to this is night and day. Used to have to spend a good 15 to 20 minutes sometimes longer cooling the wort down to pitching temperature. The Therminator cools it quicker and gets the temperature even lower than I was able to previously with the immersion chillers. Goes from boiling hot to pitching temperature in 6 minutes or under. Great investment and every serious home brewer should own one of these bad boys right here.

I have brewed about 10 batches with this chiller and it works great. I live in San Diego so the ground water is around 65-70 degrees year round. I use a SS coil in a bucket of ice to pre-chill the water going into the chiller and it can cool a 5 gallon batch from boiling to 72 in about 5 minutes! One thing I will say is when I brew hoppy beers I can end up with a bunch of trub in my fermenter. I plan to get a hop rocket to help filter trub and give the wort one last hop blast! All in all, one of the best purchases I have made.

I couldn't believe how fast I was able to move wort between the boil kettle and my fermenters all which hitting the perfect temp. I really had doubts about well counter flow chillers worked but I'm a believer now. I noticed a lot of hop junk when cleaning out the unit after my first batch but I don't fault the unit. I have a Boilermaker kettle and chose only to whirlpool my batch and without a hop bag or screen. I've since purchased a HopBlocker which I think will stop all the junk from making it through to the chiller. This is my first counter flow chiller so unfortunately I have nothing else to compare it to but I will say it's a huge improvement over any immersion chiller I've ever used.

2) these chillers have two rows of extremely sharp jagged edges on each corner; depending on the direction from which you rub across these razor sharp edges, will depend whether you get cut or not. These adges are so sharp, I didn't realize my hands had been cut until I saw blood all over the place.

Both my Therminators have this issue - so its not just a one-off issue with one chiller that slipped through their quality control - its a production issue which needs addressing at Blichmann's plant.

My email highlighting this concern to Blichmann was blown off by their customer "service" rep - indicating a complete lack of concern from Blichmann - so I guess we are on our own to correct this issue - sanding with some coarse wet or dry will probably fix the issue, I will try that when I have time.

Very fast counterflow chilling. Nightmare to clean esp if you use pellets and allow hop matter to enter the chiller. Flush forward back over and over and you'll still see hop bits coming out. Got to the point where I had to recirculate hot blc solution to dissolve all the trapped matter. Finally just gave it away and went back to immersion. Wouldn't recommend it.

I have used a number of chillers in the past and this is hands down the best chiller on the market. I am able to take 11 gallons of wort from boiling to 70 degrees in about 10 min using water coming from my hose.

My only advice is to make sure you back flush this chiller well after each usage.

I have used this chiller three times now. The first time it worked great with my Blichmann Boilermaker and HopBlocker and chilled the wort as fast as it would drain to 65 degrees. The second time I used it, there was a total failure as the chiller got clogged. If I had been using a pump, I am guessing this would not have been a big issue. However, since I was using gravity, I was out-of-luck. Had to buy a bag of ice to save the batch. On the third try, I drained about a quart of wort from the kettle before attaching the hose to the chiller. A rather large amount of trub came out of the hose before running clear. After attaching the hose, the chiller worked great. I am guessing that a certain amount of hops/trub entered the HopBlocker before I whirlpooled. Once that was cleared, everything worked as advertised.

I have 50 plus batches through my chiller. I use 1 and 5 gallon paint strainer bags for hops from Lowes in my boils. if its a small one time addition its a 1 gallon bag tied at the top just drop it in. Never lost any hop flavor and no hops in my chiller.

This will be the best investment you have ever made if you are doing 15+ gallon batches. We cool 20 gallons of beer in about 20 minutes. It would be faster if we had a pump to force the beer through the therminator. Our hose can't be turned on all the way or we'll cool the beer to an amazing 56 degrees F!

For anyone in the review who has said anything about clogging, they have not adjusted their equipment properly. If you get clogs, it's most likely from the hops you've added. We use a hop bad and a screen on our boil kettle to ensure we have no clogs. Never had a clog once and I've brewed at least 15 batches on it so far. Another issue could be that you are crushing your grains too finely and didn't use the grain bed as a filter. That happened the first time, but our clog happened upstream when we were sparging, not cooling.

If you are making big batches, buy this. You won't regret it once it's working!

Love this chiller. In the summer i still need a pre chiller but 75% of the year is amazing. My water temps in the summer are pretty high, so getting to 66 degrees isn't an option with out a pre chiller.

Last night was my first brew with the new pump and wort chiller. Usually it takes me 50 minutes to chill my 10 gallon brew with a copper coil and garden hose. Last night - 5 minutes to fill both carboys and the temp on the Fermometer (on the outside of the carboys) was 78 degrees. Truly amazing how much time this reduced and how easy it was to backflush and clean.

I have always heard bad things about the therminator, but i love mine. Amazingly fast chilling. IMmediately upon completion of brewing I pump PBW through it both ways and then rinse, and have never had a problem. If your using a pump I suggest adding a valve and an inline thermometer. I believe morebeer already has a kit like this.

If you are anything like me, the worst part of brewing is cooling that wort down. After hours of prep, carefully monitoring that mash temp, getting that sparge water flow just right, adding those hops at their precise times, you have the fun of sitting and looking at your thermometer as your wort crawls from 80 degrees down to 60. Wait. You're making a lager? Poor bastard.

Buy this thing. Yes, it's a pain to clean, but you're already cleaning everything else. What's one more? Within minutes, your wort will be whatever temp you desire. Make a small effort and clogs aren't an issue either. Make a small whirlpool and transfer out with a steel racking cane. Install a Blichmann Hop Blocker, or a Hop Rocket filled with rice hulls, or even a stainless scrub pad and pump your wort into the Therminator clean and clog-free. It's not hard to get past the quirks that come with this device.

Now that I have used this thing twice, I will never use my immersion chiller for anything other than chilling the water going into my Therminator. That's another thing you can do, too.

I have one of the B3 sculptures with the whirlpool in the boil kettle. At the end of every boil, I whirlpool for at least 10-20 minutes before I ever hook the hoses into this chiller. Theoretically, all the spent hops (I only use pellets) and trub should be accumlated in the center of my boil kettle - read: very little material actually goes into this chiller. However, without fail, it still clogs every batch and the flow into my fermenter is painfully slow.

I have made an attachment to flush it with a hose, and I have tried boiling it. Nothing I do seems to avoid the inevitable clog that comes with this chiller, and it cannot be taken apart.

If I had it to do over again, I would NEVER buy this thing. Spend your money elsewhere. Trust me. The Blichmann Therminator is NOT WORTH THE MONEY.

Thank you for your feedback and posting your review. Plate chillers are indeed somewhat difficult to keep clean, as the channels in which your wort travels are extremely small. I have used both this chiller and a shirron plate chiller, and have always been able to blast the sediment / material out by connecting to my hose and turning it up full blast. At that PSI it would be hard not to get most of the material out of your chiller, but if you still feel there's a little residual hop / wort in the chiller, you can always try pumping hot PBW water through it. That and another flush and you'll have a clean chiller once again!

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this process, please don't hesitate to contact our customer support at info@morebeer.com.

Cheers!

December 14, 2017

Matt Monroe

Response from MoreFlavor

Hi JTB,

Thank you for your feedback and posting your review. Plate chillers are indeed somewhat difficult to keep clean, as the channels in which your wort travels are extremely small. I have used both this chiller and a shirron plate chiller, and have always been able to blast the sediment / material out by connecting to my hose and turning it up full blast. At that PSI it would be hard not to get most of the material out of your chiller, but if you still feel there's a little residual hop / wort in the chiller, you can always try pumping hot PBW water through it. That and another flush and you'll have a clean chiller once again!

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this process, please don't hesitate to contact our customer support at info@morebeer.com.

Cheers!

December 22, 2017

Matt Monroe

Reviews for Similar Products

CONNECT

NEWSLETTER

Sign up to receive exclusive deals, tips and tricks, special coupons and much more ...